Posted on 02/17/2015 11:53:06 AM PST by NYer
Graeme Wood writes the best analysis and description of the horror of ISIS here at The Atlantic. He goes into detail about the roots of ISIS, its relationship to mainstream Islam and the ambitions of the Caliphate. He explains how ISIS combines not only a horribly literalistic interpretation of the Koran, but also how it is interlaced with radical Muslim apocalyptic visions.
He sums up the whole article pretty well with this paragraph
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
In his extensive article Wood interviews ISIS representatives in Britain and Australia and reports his findings from research and meetings with the world’s experts.
What emerges is a truly frightening scenario. It seems first of all, that the Western powers have taken a very long time to understand the threat and an even longer time to figure out what to do about it.
What we’re facing is a kind of religious fanaticism on a grand scale that might seem small fry, but which has global ambitions not just of murder, mayhem and genocide but of total destruction.
In other words, they are looking forward to the end of the world and would pull the trigger themselves if they could.
According to Fox News, ISIS just burned 45 people alive in Iraq.
Catholic ping!
NO! KILL THEM!
I'll leave it to the bleeding heart liberals to psycho-analyze the animals.
Everything I need to know about islam I learned on 911.
Boy was that bumper sticker true.
May God help us.
JUST READ THE QURAN. IT WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON.
I don’t want to understand dung beetle cadavers.
I don’t want to understand dung beetle cadavers.
Eternal rest grant into the Holy Souls, oh Lord, and let Thy Perpetual Light shine upon them. May the should of all the faithful departed, through the Infinite Mercy of Almighty God, rest in peace forever. Amen.
May God give strength to those left behind, and those who are next.
No. I just want them dead.
A note about the map -
across Western Iraq (Anbar Province)there are thin dark-gray lines showing “support zones” or ISIS free-movement zones. Those lines are the main roads, which is the only place there are any people (except for the occasional wandering shepherd and his raggedy flock). The open areas between have nothing, nothing, nothing. Just wide open areas of uninhabitable desert. They might as well color that in dark gray as well, as ISIS could freely travel there as well, but have no reason at all to do so.
Good article, read it earlier today.
ISIS will destroy, oppress and kill until its members are killed. New members must be killed as they arise. Less members means less death of innocents, so the less ISIS the better at any given time.
That isn’t easy to do but it’s simple to understand and their numbers can be lowered enough to degrade them from being a major threat.
We can start on that in about 23 months. Which means there will be a lot of killing to do.
Unfortunately the airhead is merely speaking the words that John (who served in Vietnam) Kerry and bh0 have told her to say. when I heard Ms Harf this morning, I wanted to barf.
Napalm worked in the Six Day War in Sinai but still has bad P.R. from Vietnam. Sure would be effective against these savages.
Fuel-air explosives would work well, too.
ISIS is not a form of Islam. ISIS is Islam in its purest evilest most concentrated form, no ifs, ands, or buts.
From the article, “What we’re facing is a kind of religious fanaticism on a grand scale that might seem small fry, but which has global ambitions not just of murder, mayhem and genocide but of total destruction.
In other words, they are looking forward to the end of the world and would pull the trigger themselves if they could.”
And Obama is letting the Iranians develop the bomb. What could go wrong?
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